[81010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: soBGP deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Blunk)
Mon May 23 11:27:40 2005
From: "Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17041.58528.784569.223875@roam.psg.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:27:14 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:11 -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
> > If you look back to the NSFNet days (prior to a decade ago) and
> > the PRDB (Policy Routing Database), you might very well draw a
> > different conclusion.
>
> indeed, one of utter disaster. it would take days or weeks
> before one could route a prefix.
>
I suspect this was due to the fact that template submissions
were not fully automated at the time and required human
review (disclaimer: I worked for the MichNet side of Merit
back then and was not intimately familiar with PRDB
operations).
-Larry
